ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Madeline Usher is the twin sister of Roderick Usher. She is deathly ill and cataleptic. She appears near the narrator, but never acknowledges his presence.

Detailed explanation-2: -Madeline soon dies, and Roderick decides to bury her temporarily in the tombs below the house. He wants to keep her in the house because he fears that the doctors might dig up her body for scientific examination, since her disease was so strange to them.

Detailed explanation-3: -Despite having known Roderick Usher as a child, the narrator does not know that he has a sister, Madeline. The two have lived alone together for many years and are revealed to be twins with an especially close bond in Edgar Allan Poe’s supernatural story, ‘’The Fall of the House of Usher.

Detailed explanation-4: -Madeline Usher dies. Her funeral is due to take place two weeks later. In the meantime, her body is placed in a coffin and taken to a vault below the house, directly underneath the narrator’s bedroom. After his twin sister’s death, Roderick’s descent into madness appears to be complete.